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November 30, 1995 Page 7 • The Battalion eactions vary to speed limit increase iResidents of a rural town are concerned with ie possible raise in legal driving speeds. o the ft. he ject ne;? ?w ihj It’s at from tls of sext; ian — Jaj writer is ite-nig Varietj ROPESVILLE, Texas (AP) — affic raced along the Lubbock- I-Odessa highway Wednesday loming as residents of this town jpoke out against faster driving. ' Here in Ropesville — from y’s Drive-In to the cotton gin it off U.S. 62 — people are voic- g qualms about the likelihood at 70 mph will become a legal iving speed by next month. The three-member Texas Transportation Commission leets Thursday morning in ustin to decide whether to |ake the speed-limit change on ost rural and divided highways the state. “I don’t think it needs to go , I just think there’ll be more recks,” said Faye Jonas, serv- g lunch at her diner. “Seventy pretty fast.” You’re going to have more acci dents and higher insurance fates,” warned farmer John Smith at the gin. President Clinton on Tuesday Signed the National Highway ystem bill, which ends the feder- 1 speed limit laws that began in 974 to save energy. Removal of the federal speed ap Dec. 8 puts a 1963 Texas iw back into effect. State law et the maximum speed limit at 0 mph in the daytime and 65 iph at night for passenger ehicles. Officials suggest that drivers keep a light touch on the gas pedal. “The best advice for mo torists is to abide by the posted speed limit,” said Major E.C. Sherman of the Department of Public Safety’s enforcement di vision. “Some areas will stay 55 mph, so motorists should not assume the speed limit is any higher than the posted limit.” The Texas Department of Transportation said new speed limit signs are not expected to start going up until mid-De cember. Complete installation could take until May, the agency said. Opponents of high speed fear an increase in traffic deaths. Texas accounted for 3,142 traffic fatalities last year. But supporters of 70-mph speed limits say most people al ready drive that fast anyway. “Seems like you’re traveling too slow,” said 19-year-old Can dy Pena, hanging a strand of Christmas lights Wednesday at Ropesville City Hall. The DPS alone issued 526,637 speeding' tickets last year, an agency spokeswoman said. Ropesville police officer Rick Wooton said he writes more than 50 speeding tickets a month in the town about 15 miles west of Lubbock. 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(Former wjinn-IJixie Shipping Center) Opening irf mid December Family Practice / Minor injuries Belfast building barriers instead of tearing them down today. k d nexi|President Clinton will Visit the Short Strand ome o! ote for it show HVi/nrl BELFAST, Northern Ireland Shorn |AP) — As President Clinton will lee Thursday, a year’s experimen tal peace in Belfast has not brought its walls tumbling down. Eighteen perversely named “peace lines” of brick, steel and barbed wire separate Protes tants and Catholics, monu ments to a quarter-century’s bloodshed. Many locals want to keep them up. 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